Staff participate in both the College and Graduate School of Child Development and Education, which coordinate the Department's Bachelor's and Master's programmes and the Research Institute of Child Development and Education, which is a centre of theoretical research in the field of pedagogics and didactics.

Research

Child development: includes empirical research on cognitive, social-emotional, and biological development, and the effects of contextual factors and interventions on child and adolescent development and behaviour (normal and abnormal).

Education: includes empirical research on learning, learning disorders, and instruction, and the effects of learner characteristics, specific educational interventions and contextual factors on the acquisition and development of cognitive and social-emotional skills.

Research Priority Area: Yield

Yield conducts multidisciplinary research on the bioecology of human development, from infancy to young adulthood, with perspectives from Medicine, Psychology, Pedagogics, Education, Communication, Economics, and Psychometrics.

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